Remembrance Day Description
Commemorates the armistice ending World War I on November 11, 1918, and honors all Canadians who served and died in military service. At the 11th hour, a two-minute silence is observed nationwide. The national ceremony at Ottawa's National War Memorial includes a 21-gun salute and the reading of In Flanders Fields. Red poppies are worn throughout early November. The day is a federal statutory holiday, though Ontario and Quebec do not observe it as a provincial holiday.
